melodiesoflife | the evening shift.

Characters Yuna & OPEN
Where the Hospital in Aqures Ixen
When Post Magitek event.
Summary Yuna is working her first few shifts in the hospital -- taking care of the crystalized folks therein, as well as anyone that wanders in with injuries from a hard night's questing!
Warning Possible mention of injuries.

The halls were quiet for the start of her shift, and even quieter in some of the rooms. The crystal stasis epidemic was even more intimidating in person, and the recently arrived patients were, admittedly, Yuna's first experience seeing it up close. The victims truly seemed as though they were frozen in time, their perfect likeness ready to spring back to life -- if only they could escape their gem-encrusted prisons.

She frowned, feeling the forehead of a girl with pigtails, unable to sense any warmth from beyond the crystal's surface. With a sigh, she retracted her arm and shook her head, turning to leave the room and on to check on the next. Although she was grateful that there were no patients needing immediate care... she had to admit hearing another living breathing person would have been welcome.

When Momolumi burst through the door with an assortment of letters from Mognet, she smiled, greeting him with his pick of sweets that could be found on the central desk -- and settled in to read what news he had brought.

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Hands clasped in front of her, Yuna approached, stopping next to the girl and looking down at the solidified forms of the girls in the room. "No, I don't." Her tone was gentle, but there was a sadness to it. "I've never... seen anything like this before. But," she continued, "I do believe they're still alive... somehow."

She dedicated a small silence to the possibility that maybe that wasn't true, but no good came from being completely pessimistic about it, either. Those that had turned to crystal were, at the very least -- physically still in one piece.

"They are alive." Yeul has seen the future, before being brought to this place and they both have a path on Pulse. It would stand to reason that they couldn't die here. It had to be something else but Yeul didn't know what it could be.

"Crystal Stasis can hold a persons form but it does not mean they are dead." Her words were soft while her tone sounded factual.

That confirmed it. Yuna's lips pressed together -- "You've seen this before, haven't you." her frown remained as she considered what the girl said. She may have looked young, but something about the way she spoke belied a wisdom beyond her years.

"Is -- there anything we can do to help them?"

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"I have seen this before but I do not know. This isn't like my world." Even for the young seeress, it was a comfort to see them alive. She needed their efforts just as much as she needed Sarah and Noel.

"We do not want the crystal to shatter." It might seem obvious but that was the only way Yeul could foresee them not coming back.

The white mage nodded. "We'll keep them safe here. For as long as we need to." Yuna bowed her head, offering her silent condolences to the victims once more, before turning her attention back to the young girl. "My name is Yuna, by the way," her tone was lighter, as though trying to lift the atmosphere in the room. "I'd... like to hear more about how the crystal stasis works in your world... if you'll tell me."

"It is the state that people reach once they have completed their focus. It is said to grant eternal life." Not that Yeul believed that, she understood how the flow of souls worked on pulse and they were constantly reborn from the chaos.

"It started with Bhunivelze the god of light." Yeul didn't care for Bhunivelze, he was the creator of Pulse and the goddess Etro.

Etro who controlled life and death. The goddess who created Yeuls curse and in doing so had sealed pulses fate.

A focus? Eternal life? It was a funny way of granting it, Yuna couldn't help but think, looking on to the poor crystallized patients. Eternal life... did that mean they could hear them? Or were all their senses blocked by whatever magic had caused this? She made note, to try and talk to them as often as they could. Perhaps that would make them feel a little more at east, if they were still there in any capacity...

"Bhunivelze..." she repeated, "I've never heard that name before. I wonder... if a god of light's reach can find us even here, in that case..."

"I do not think he can because my own powers are gone." It was confusing so Yeul tried her best to be clear. "One of his creations, the goddess Etro, gave me the power of sight. It is gone which means that these gods have no power here. "

If they have no power then it was logical to assume that these crystals were not of their making. It worried Yeul to know that the gods of other worlds played with their citizens as much as Bhunivelze. Would they ever be free?

The power of sight... Although she didn't know the details of the power the girl described, she had a good guess as to what it could mean. "Then I wonder why something like this stasis would have power here..." Yuna's voice trailed, as she closed her eyes.

Perhaps, the worlds they all came from were more alike in other ways than just the moogles. What if this world, Crystallis, borrowed a little from all the places they came from? "Do you think... they'll be able to regain their true forms?"

"Yes but there is no telling when." Her voice was its usual soft tone but it held hope there too. She wasn't one to have blind faith but she knew Fang and Vanille; she had seen their path and knew of their strength.

Yeul's gaze shifted back up to Yuna. "Were you friends with them?"

"No, I... didn't know them," she breathed a quiet sigh, taking in the words. Perhaps in the world of the living they had never met, but with them here in the hospital, those crystalized felt more and more familiar to her every day.

"But... perhaps someday I'll have the chance to meet them. Once they wake up," she smiled in Yeul'd direction, trying her best to find the silver lining in a situation that had no end in sight yet.

"I'm sorry, I don't think I even asked your name..."

Her eyes moved back towards the crystal and she reached out a small hand to rest on its cold surface. "I am Yeul."

The young girl tore her eyes from the crystal and faced Yuna fully. "I wonder if they can see or hear us." She knew how the crystals worked in her world because she had the power to give people a focus. She didn't like how much she didn't know here.

Yeul's expression didn't change much but her eyes showed the feelings she couldn't speak. "You work here."

"I like to think they can, at least. Every morning or evening I'm here... I check in on them. It might be silly since I know they can't answer but... I've found myself talking to them every now and then as well," she confessed, dropping her gaze slightly as she couldn't help but chuckle softly at herself. Some might have called her crazy, talking to statues but... hadn't that been something she'd done long before now, anyway?

"Well, Yeul... do you like tea? Maybe -- if you'd like -- we could share some. And... you could tell me more about your world."

"I would like that." The idea of tea sounded lovely as the presence of fall slowly took hold of the city. She never really drank tea. It was suppose to bring comfort but she could never be comforted. The times that she held a stem cup in her hand she always felt cold.

"And what of your home?" Yeul took a few steps towards Yuna, letting the crystal forms rest silently behind her.

"We can talk all about that too, if you like," Yuna smiled warmly, nodding her head just slightly as she did. A place among the lifeless frozen was no place for a young girl, though perhaps... just how at ease Yeul seemed with tragedy made the white mage want to shift their scenery even more.

"I'll show you where they keep all the different flavours... you can pick whichever one you like."

Yeul gave her a quick nod, "Alright." She followed Yuna, her foot steps quiet on the hard floor.

the evening shift.

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perhaps we can fade out after this?? seems like a cute end :3c

Sounds good! o7